Palm Introduces the Laptop Jr.
Palm’s answer to the Treo not syncing well with your laptop is as follows: you need to buy a new laptop.
Meet the Laptop Jr. Called the Palm foleo, it’s just like a real laptop, only less. Sure, it’s cheaper ($499) and lighter (< 2.5 lbs.) than a real laptop, but the moment you want to do something on the foleo that you did on your laptop and you find you can’t? That’s the last time you take the foleo on a trip instead of your laptop. And anyone who thinks they’re going to carry this around along with both a laptop and a handheld, well, that’ll get old real fast.
This thing is terrible and will be an outright failure. This product answers a question that hardly anyone was asking. If Palm is staking it’s future on this thing, I’d say there’s not much future left for Palm.
One last thing: Walt Mossberg said at the coference
Last time you were here talking about the brain… you basically created the first handheld computer.
The Palm Pilot was released in 1996. The Apple Newton in 1993.
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I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment, which is sad considering I was all set to love just about anything the Palm folks unveiled. I’ve never had a problem synching my Treo to the desktop interface on my laptop, but this still doesn’t provide anything new that would make me want to stay up until the wee hours playing with all the cool features, as I did with the Treo and the Handspring before it. Heavy sigh. Please don’t make me learn a new OS. Pleeaaaaase.